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Norman Reilly Raine (23 June 1894 – 19 July 1971) was an American screenwriter, creator of "Tugboat Annie" and winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
Jul 29, 1971 · Norman Reilly Raine, crea tor of the “Tugboat Annie” character in some 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and writer of many films, died on July 19 at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in...
Jan 1, 2021 · Annie was the literary creation of a writer named Norman Reilly Raine, a World War I veteran turned writer who came to Seattle in 1930 to teach short story writing at the University of Washington.
Mr. Raine was a durable, prolific and distinguished screenwriter whose screenplay for "The Life of Zola" won an Academy Award in 1937, but his fame will rest on about 75 Tugboat...
Tugboat Annie is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat.
Norman Reilly Raine was born on 23 June 1894 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and We've Never Been Licked (1943).
Nov 10, 2015 · The movie Tugboat Annie was based on the short stories of Norman Reilly Raine (1894-1971) published in The Saturday Evening Post. Raine began writing his Annie stories in 1931 during a brief stint as a writing instructor at the University of Washington.
